Paralegals must be ready to embrace uncertainty with confidence so that they can quickly slip into the shoes of their colleagues when asked to help another team for trial at the last minute. The challenge is even more if the case is completely new to you and you do not have any experience of working in such cases. It might also happen that the sudden departure of a former paralegal of your firm creates a situation when you become the lead paralegal for a case due for trial in a few weeks, and the case is completely new to you. In such situations, the trial notebook is the only document to fall…